THE UPPER WENSLEYDALE NEWSLETTER Issue 249 August 2018 Donation please: 30p suggested or more if you wish Stacey Moore Covering Upper Wensleydale from Wensley to Garsdale Head plus Walden and Bishopdale, Covering UpperSwaledale Wensleydale from from Keld Wensley to Gunnerside to Garsdale plus Cowgill Head, within Upper Walden Dentdale. and Bishopdale, Swaledale from Keld to Gunnerside plus Cowgill in Upper Dentdale. Guest Editorial snow’ tells us how ‘April brings the primrose sweet, Scatters daisies at our feet’ . But it also Angry in August tells us how ‘August brings the sheaves of corn, I always get angry in August Then the harvest home is borne‘. Dull August It started the year I lost Jack bears the fruit of much hard work, by farmers and gardeners and by nature itself . The preaching is dire, there isn’t a choir I have lived in Wensleydale for nine years And everyone sits at the back. now, after twenty eight years of city dwelling, These are the opening lines of a bit of doggerel I and life in the country has tuned me into the once wrote for a parish magazine. The speaker rhythm of the seasons. From our garden we look was a very old lady who told me that she at neighbour John’s fields, at his sheep and his ‘always got angry in August’ because she was cattle. We see the lambs come and go. We see lonely, and because him muck spreading, we see him mowing. We wait for these things now and there is a Everyone goes to the sea. reassurance in the repeated pattern. The They’re away with their tots sameness of it anchors us to something beyond Or sailing their yachts ourselves. And nobody thinks about ME! Yes, not much happens in August, it is samey, some might say ‘boring’. Quite recently there August is a funny month. As Winston was a whole raft of books published about the Churchill once muttered about Sir Alfred importance of being bored, all taking the line Bossom (designer of some of the first that boredom can lead to creativity. I have skyscrapers) ‘Bossom.., Bossom...it’s neither known parents who have banned The Screen, one thing nor the other..’ The best of the confiscated all electrical ‘toys’ and sent their summer is over by now, the garden is shrivelling children out to play. And when those children and browning. Up here, we try not to think of a realised the parents were in earnest, they fell to, long winter ahead. Nothing much is happening. they developed all kinds of imaginative games, No wonder most of August occupies what the outside with trees and dens, inside with big sofa church calls ‘Ordinary Time’. cushions that became lairs for dragons. I once had a friend who decided to give up So let’s hear it for August, for children at play nostalgia for Lent. At the time I thought this was and for the land that is wisely winding down in funny; I don’t now. As we age nostalgia can be preparation for the harder months. Let’s hear it reassuring. In ‘The View in Winter’, a book for Wensleydale. Let’s hear it for Here. about ageing, Ronald Blythe writes ‘The reason old people keep revisiting the past is to make Ann Pilling sure it is still there.’ If I walk down memory lane I see again those gloomy notices in shop Leyburn & District U3A windows announcing ‘Back to School!’ often accompanied by pictures of smiley children with August's monthly meeting is at Leyburn Arts & brand new leather ‘satchels’ and wearing stout Community Centre on Friday, August 17th from 10.00am. The speaker at 10.30am is Aimée Clarks shoes. I hated them because they appeared much too early, when it felt as if the Nicholson who works for the RSPB as part of long school holiday had only just got under way. the Hen Harrier LIFE+ Project. I felt cheated by them, cheated of important The aim of the project is to provide the holiday playtime. When you are a child you conditions in which hen harrier range and think life will go on for ever. Perhaps there is a population recovery can occur and she will talk lesson here, about living in the moment. about this beautiful bird, its status in the uplands and the conservation project. Free to members, Most people, I guess, prefer April to August, The old schoolroom poem ‘January brings the small charge for visitors. 2 Dairy Days Project Update We are holding an Oral History Training Day on Monday, July 30th from 10.00am to 3.30pm at the Dales Countryside Museum. Eunice the Ewe Please join us for a fascinating day with Tracy Last month I was looking out of an upstairs window in Craggs learning how to make oral history the Simonstone Hall advert on page 19 and the winner recordings for the Dairy Days project. You will of the £10 prize is Charlotte Biddlecombe of Gayle. learn how to plan interviews; how to create a comfortable atmosphere and get the best out of Where am I now? To enter for the £10 prize, please your subjects and what pitfalls to avoid. include your postal address if replying by email. A buffet lunch will be provided and the course is free but there are limited spaces so please Thoralby Fete book early to avoid disappointment. Contact Sunday, August 12th, 2.00pm - 5.00pm details below. Once trained you will become a vital part of the Dairy Days project, recording A traditional village fete with Fancy Dress the memories of local people involved in (2.00pm); Children’s Races & Games Wensleydale's dairying heritage. Bouncy Castle and Face Painting Researching dairying memorabilia Stalls: books, toys, plants, cakes, nearly new We now have a team of seven people Tug of war, Tombola and Raffle interested in researching the stories behind some Teas in the village hall of the dairying objects in the collection at the Dales Countryside Museum. Get in contact if you fancy having a go as well West Burton Village Hall - we have a fantastic research room at the Dales Cream Teas and Cake Stall Countryside Museum and there are museum Sunday, September 2nd volunteers available twice a week to get you 2.00pm - 4.30pm started. If you'd like to book a place on a course, know more about the project or want to share your dairying stories with us contact The accuracy, appropriateness or legitimacy Karen Griffiths Dairy Days Project Officer of any product or service advertised in this [email protected] or ring publication is the sole responsibility of the 01756 751619. advertiser and not of the Upper Wensleydale Newsletter. Submission of articles Please note that all submissions should comply In This Issue Page with current copyright legislation. If submitted articles are not the original work of the person Competition & Answers 4 submitting them, then all relevant permission Thorney Mire Notes 5 should be sought and granted for reproduction. AA Box 11 Martial Arts School 12 Burtersett Show 16 DEADLINE FOR COPY FOR THE What’s Ons 20 NEXT ISSUE IS Asylum Seekers Respite Day 22 Doctors’ Rota 24 MONDAY AUGUST 20th West Witton Feast 24 (Unless we are full earlier) Police Report 28 Young Writers Competition 31 PUBLISHED ON AUGUST 31st Askrigg Produce Show 31 3 August Competition July Competition Answers This month’s competition is to find a word These were expressions involving body parts. which when combined with the two other words and the answers were;- - creates another word or expression; eg for 1. HEAD IN THE CLOUDS satellite ….. cloth, one missing link word would be dish (but there might be more than one 2 ALWAYS ON MY BACK answer!) 3 LET YOU HAIR DOWN 1 Top ……. Weight 4 KEEP YOUR CHIN UP 2 Hang ……. Set 5. RAISED EYBROWS 3 Radio ……. Tables 6. MAKES MY BLOOD BOIL 4 Candle ……. Works 7. THUMBS UP 5 Football …… Perfect 8. BIRD IN THE HAND 6 Heavy ……. Fatigue 9 HARD SHOULDER 7 Top ……. Man 10. ELBOW GREASE 8 Bus ……. Over 11. IN THE LAP OF THE GODS 9 Fair ……. Floor 12 LONG ARM OF THE LAW 10 Dinner ……. Potato There were a number of correct entries despite 11 Up ……. Wheel the deliberate(?) mistake in no 12 and the winner drawn out of the hat was Mrs D Lanham of 12 Down ……. Study Tadley, Hants and the nominated charity of Cats Send in your answers to arrive by Monday, Protection will receive a cheque for £20. August 20th for a chance to win the £20 prize which will be sent to your nominated charity. NEIL SCULLY HERRIOT’S CARPET & VINYL IN HAWES Come along and enjoy great food FITTING SERVICE and tea or coffee, whilst browsing all the beautiful artwork from our 01969 667772 talented local artists. The Herriot Café and Gallery are open Drop-off points and contacts every day except Wednesdays. for news, articles, reports, letters, What’s On dates, competition entries, suggestions and 11.00am to 3.00pm. comments:- All 01969 numbers. 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